The Prospector: Riches and adventure lure a young man west to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. - Paperback

by Mark Lashway (Editor), James Oliver Virmala (Author)

Life on the potato farm in Maine offered little of the adventure the young Amos Mudd longed for. Reading the news of gold in California became an escape for him and finally his objective. The hardships of making the long trek and abandoning his father could only hold him back for so long.